10 Presentations with Q&A by Speakers. On-Demand Recordings. Bonus Recordings and More!

With the Fort Worth History Center Staff. First, we will take a comprehensive tour of the center & collection, learn about ordering from off site, highlight the equipment available for use or checkout and then spend the rest of the time searching and getting help from the staff. Suzanne Fritz can help patrons with their difficult questions.

The Freedman's Bank Records, 1865-1874 were formerly known as the Freedmans' Savings and Trust Company. This was established by the US government, primarily for freed slaves or African-American US soldiers. This index & the scanned images of registers for 67,000 people, provide a wealth of genealogical information helpful in finding African-American ancestors. Suzanne will also explain the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, & Abandoned Lands (Freedmen's Bureau), Anglo and other citizens can also be found in these records.

With Gaby Kienitz. Come lean about the resources and techniques used for doing the “genealogy” of our houses and property. You might even learn something about the owners and the neighborhood as well.

With Patti Gillespie. This presentation explains in a fun and visual way how to choose a test, a company, what to do while waiting for the report, and how to maximize the report results. Whether deciding who to contact, how to use the research within the DNA report, or just how to link our trees to our DNA results, this session will be helpful. Besides spending time reviewing the report, the potential use of raw data is introduced with a visual step-by-step procedure for uploading raw data to other sites.